The Press., 1887-09-01
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In the north east corner of the district were David Belcher, Silas Burley, and David Brown. The first lived in house on the west side of Burley hill, short distance east of where Prescott s. Belcher and John Belcher now reside. The old house is standing, or was quite recently. About thirty-five years ago Richmond Belcher, one of David Belcher's sons, built the house just opposite. In this Norman W. Belcher, another of the sons, lived for several years.
 East f David Belcher lived Silas Bur ley. The house stood near the Union line, and some distance from the road. Long ago unoccupied, it is now gone.
 On the old turnpike-road, not far from the Massachusetts line, lived David Brown. The house is still standing, and is occu- pied. At that time this was tho last house iu Connecticut on that road, the one now occupied and standing on the line haviug been built by Richmond Belcher less than forty years ago.
 Over the old turnpike-road just men toned stages ran regularly, stopping for relays at the Street on the south and at Sturbridge on the north. Here, too, time has wrought its changes. Not long after a new and better mode of travelling took the place of the old, and the ring of the stage drivers voice, the tread of his swift horses, and the rattling of his heavy wheels have long since passed away. The old route ran northeast and southwest directly through the district by the ool-house, seemingly cIreless of deep valley and pre- cipitous hill. Here the road has met with changes. The most important is where a better way was opened nearly forty years ago, little to the east, and thus the steep and difficult places near the school-house and on Birch Hill were avoided.
 At the foot of Burley hill, about a half mile east of the school house, lived The ophilus Cutler. For many years after his death, Timothy Cutler, one of his sons, lived on the place. The house is still standing, and Charles Bradway lives there. | A little south of the school-hous and on the same side of what was then the turnpike-road lived Squire Perry. Some time before Judah Hall had lived there. The old house was moved away several years ago.
 Some distance further south, on the op. posite side of the road, lived Levi Hall. The house still stands, and quite recently Nathan Rood lived there. Alburtus Walk CT lives there at the present time.
 About sixty-five years ago Elisha Plimp. ton built a house where William Smith now lives. It is said to have been framed on the foundation of the old school-house, and intended for the new one. On ac- count of some trouble the frame was re- moved, and the house finished on the hill where it now stands. It was occupied awhile by MT. Hare afterward by a MT. Ives. Later, Judson Rood lived there for about forty years.
 There were two or three houses on 1 Stewart hill. ID one Dea. James Stewart lived, and, later, his son, James Stewart, Jr. In another, further to the west, lived Rufus Rood, and, afterward, Erasmus Rood, his son. A little east of the Stew art place Is a house-spot, where Benjamin Agard lived for a time hundred years ago or more. A little further. east is a place where, perhaps about sixty five years ago, house was built by Almond Stewart, a son of Dea. Stewart. This house was occupied only a short time. | All the houses on the hill are gone An unimportant hut and an old barn mark the spot where Rufus Rood lived.
 A little northeast of the cemetery, on the turnpike-road, was the tavern, kept by Elisha Plimpton. The road was there ob- structed by toll-gate, which was afterward removed to a place outside the district. Elisha Fisk had lived there and kept the
 
 tavern building was taken down, and a new house built on the same spot by Gil bert Chaffee nearly thirty years ago. Dauiel Bowden lives there at the present time.
 | North of the tavern, on the road that ran direct to John Halls, and thence to Mas sachusetts, lived Jonathan Bolton, and, later, Jonathan Bolton, his son. Still later, Matthias Heck lived there for many years. The house is still standing, but unoccupied.
 On the turnpike-road, just opposite the cemetery, lived Joseph Shaw. A black smith, as we'll as a farmer, he had @ small shop on the brook, nearly east of the cem- etery. About forty years ago he moved away. No house has stood there for sev- eral years.
 Some distance west of Joseph Shaws stood house that has since disappeared. The new way, made when the reservoir was enlarged, passes over the old cellar just after leaving the old road. David Vrnton was living there about sixty-hve years ago.
 In the western part of the district, about half a mile from the old turnpike, was an old house, in which Nathan Agard lived. About sixty years ago new house was built near by, in which Nathan Agard, Jr., now resides. The old house remained several years unoccupied after the new was built.
 About a quarter of mile further west beyond the present limits of the district was another old house. Amos Fuller had lived there, and he died there over seventy years ago. After his death several fami- lies, among which were those of Daniel Moulton, Abner Holmes, and Joel Sands, lived there at different times. No house has stood there for many years.
 To these rapid and imperfect sketches l will add the following:
 On the road running northwest from the school-ho there was built a house somewhat less than sixty-five years ago. A family by the name of Gay lived there for while. The house is not standing.
 On the place once owned by David Vim ton is an old house spot, where tradition points and obscurely speaks of the Shakers and the name of Snow. They were gone long ago, perhaps moving away and seek ing place among people with ways more congenial to their own.
 Again, in solemn loneliness, on the side of Stewart hill, some distance west of where Rufus Rood once lived, are the ru- ins of long past home. At that place, a little east of the brook and not far from the old turnpike, lived Nathan Hiscock about seventy-five years ago, with his af- ficted household, and tradition tells of 8 1 terrible tragedy enacted there by an in-